Alternative spellings of this word include Tumar.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Tumara in India is the name of a plant defined with Cajanus cajan in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Phaseolus balicus L. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Natural history (1920)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006)
· Plant Systematics and Evolution (1994)
· Flora Atlantica (1798)
· Agricultural University Wageningen Papers (1986)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Tumara, for example extract dosage, diet and recipes, pregnancy safety, side effects, health benefits, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

tumārā (तुमारा).—m P Germination or sprouting.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

ṭumarā (टुमरा).—a Of short stature, dwarfish. Short, stubby, stumpy.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Tūmāra (तूमार) [Also spelled tumar]:—[[~la]] (nm) fuss; magnifying a point beyond due limits; —[bāṃdhanā] to create a fuss, to magnify a point beyond all reasonable limits, to stretch things too far.

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See also (Relevant definitions)

Ends with: Damtumara, Datumara, Gamtumara, Hamaratumara, Kattumara, Kautumara, Shisebiratumara.

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